*The Beatles released Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart s Club Band in 1967.
The album cover__ which depicts the four surrounding a funeral arrangement _ fueled a rumor that Paul McCarthy had died!

* Queen Elizabeth 2 was crowned at Westminster Abbey in 1953. She was only 26 years old !
British actress Helen Mirren took home this year's Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal of the monarch in the Queen.

* The now famous scene with Marylin Monroe's dress blowing up caused a stir when the Seven Year Itch was released 1955. In spite of her fame, Monroe's character in the film is known only as "The Girl"!

* Grocery store owner Sylvan Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937 . Customers were reluctant to uo use the new contraption, however,
until Goldman hired people to pose as shoppers and wheel the carts around!

* Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban the thir, Harry Potter movie, was released in 2004. The seventh and last book in the serious, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, will be released July 21...

* Cable News Network (CNN) debuted in 1980. No one had ever before attempting a 24-hour news station, and industry insiders doubted it would survivor!

Well, that's it for this month on Entertainment and news in History...
Stay tuned for next month, same time and web page.
I hope you all enjoyed these little tidbits I thought they were neat things to hear.
enjoy your day Ladies!
Dejavu.

Thanks girlfriend I love history and as the grandma here I remember many of them.

lol
Gabi

* Cable News Network (CNN) debuted in 1980. No one had ever before attempting a 24-hour news station, and industry insiders doubted it would survivor!


I love the stories where in the start everyone doubted you and then you succeeded right in front of their face

lol me too.
I especially love them when it is a woman who they doubted.

thanks for the history/trivia I love finding out this sort of stuff

I love history